gagarr
nafnorðkarlkyn
a dog; gagarr er skaptr því at geyja skal, a dog is so made as to bark, 4: used as a nickname, 145: in a verse in a shell is called ‘the ever mute surf-dog’ (síþögull brimróta gagarr), from a custom of children, who in play make shells represent flocks and herds, kú-skeljar (cow-shells), gymbr-skeljar (lamb-shells), and put one shell for a dog. gagara-ljóð, ‘dog-song’ (?), a kind of metre in Rímur.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- prob.probably.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Mkv.Málshátta-kvæði. (A. III.)
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)